Another way you could possibly do it is to press VO-shift-U to hear the address 
of the current link, then press VO-shift-C to copy the last spoken phrase to 
the clipboard.  This might be slightly quicker than going to "copy link."

Harry

On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Once you have focus on a link you can pull up the contextual menu 
> (VO-shift-M) and then arrow down to "Copy Link". Of course if the link is 
> 'fake' where it really just fires off a bunch of script which loads a bunch 
> of stuff then there might not be a link to copy.
> 
> CB
> 
> On 1/15/13 5:05 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> What I would like to know is how one can get the full URL of the
>> currently selected link without actually opening it.  An example of
>> this might be a download link to a file; I would be interested in
>> copying this direct link in case to pass along in a tweet or email or
>> something.  So I don't want to open the link first.
>> 
>> Make sense?
>> 
>> On 1/14/13, Chris Bruinenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Your welcome.
>>> I'm glad to help.
>>> 
>>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Lisette Wesseling <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Chris. You are right. I thought it gave a blank field but the
>>>> current one is in there. Thanks. Very easy really isn't it?
>>>> 
>>>> Lisette
>>>> 
>>>> On 15/01/2013, at 10:23 AM, Chris Bruinenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>> When i go to the address bar with command+l it highlights the current
>>>>> address.
>>>>> Then press command c to copy.
>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>> Chris
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Lisette Wesseling
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> Is there a quick way to get to the address bar in Safari so you can copy
>>>>>> the website address you're on and paste the link in an email. I can
>>>>>> navigate to it via the toolbar.
>>>>>> If you press command l, you get to enter a new address but you can't see
>>>>>> the old one.
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Lisette
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